The Hangover (2009)

All Critics (224) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (175) | Rotten (47) | DVD (17)

An intriguing, time-hopping set-up is wasted on obnoxious characters, celebrity cameos and crass attempts at humour.

June 12, 2009 Full Review | Comments (13)

Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Top Critic

You might be embarrassed by laughing at some of the silliness, but don't be: Everyone else will be cracking up, too.

June 11, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Sara Vilkomerson

New York Observer

Top Critic

The movie smells like a hit, but honestly: Helms excepted, did it need to be quite so blandly cast, or quite so lamely raunchy?

June 5, 2009 Full Review | Comments (24)

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.

June 5, 2009 Full Review

Betsy Sharkey

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

The Hangover, like the condition for which it's named, has some spirited moments, but more often it stumbles and slurs, regurgitating earlier pleasures and praying for the fog to lift.

June 5, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Nelson

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Amusing as it is, it never feels real.

June 5, 2009 Full Review | Comments (10)

Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

Top Critic

The kind of brilliant comedy that will have you gasping, laughing so hard you'll have tears in your eyes and rocking back in your chair from laughter.

May 25, 2013 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Just when you think things can't get any more farcical, they do: The Hangover is the Crank of comedy.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

If the movie's gleeful rush into areas of questionable comedic taste occasionally raises an eyebrow here and there, the end sequence will sear them right off.

September 29, 2011 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

A younger generation is finding new stupid things to do underneath the desert sun.

August 26, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Starting on Monday, Coogan and Bryden share meals . . . and what passes for conversation. When they're not insufferable, they're boring

June 27, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

I highly recommend going into this film blind, just to keep some of the surprises from being ruined. Oh, and being a 21-year-old male will also really help you to enjoy this flick.

October 27, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

The Hangover might not be top class indie pop art, but the film represents the best of what comedy can provide -- pure, unadulterated, slaphappy entertainment. And there's nothing wrong with that.

October 15, 2010 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

I can definitely understand why it was a humongous hit, but when all is said and done, once was enough for this partier...

August 19, 2010 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

It's good for wasting time and pondering the absurdity of not-so-random events, but not for much else.

July 15, 2010 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

A fun time is had watching these three men piece together a night that never was, something of an old school detective story mixed with a heavy dose of adult humour. Better comedies have been released, yet not many as brazen as The Hangover.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

The Hangover doesn't contain the constant rip-roaring laughs the likes of Superbad or some of the Frat Pack's best.

April 15, 2010 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Bachelor Party meets Dude, Where's My Car (and about as entertaining as the two of them averaged together.)

April 7, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

The stupid fun of The Hangover is worth experiencing at least once. [Blu-ray]

January 15, 2010 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Todd Philips, who wrote and directed Road Trip and Old Scool, wrote Borat, and even plays the coked out Israeli dude in the elevator in The Hangover, has had his finger on the pulse of modern comedy cinema for a decade.

January 6, 2010 Full Review

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Quite entertaining as an entry in this tried-and-true genre of "guys going on a inadvertent wacky adventure," and I like how this one is set up as a kind of mystery.

December 29, 2009 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

The real underlying message of The Hangover, as in most of Phillips' films, is that women are shrews, whores and/or fools-though Galifinakis is the only one to deal with the homoerotic subtext within the male bonding.

December 26, 2009 Full Review | Comments (5)

Adam Lippe

Examiner.com

works not because it is a comedy, but because its unimpressive comedic content is framed by much more interesting detective story

December 15, 2009 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

Draxblog Movie Reviews

...apparently, I have no sense of humor for finding so little joy in the runaway hit comedy 'The Hangover.'

December 13, 2009 Full Review | Comments (60)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Question: What do Mike Tyson's tiger, a chicken, a horrible effeminate Chinese man stereotype naked in a car trunk, a stolen police car, a baby, a missing tooth and Phil Collins' music all have in common? Answer: Nothing...

December 6, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rubin Safaya

Cinemalogue.com

The Hangover's witless regression is unforgivable.

November 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (8)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

• 1. Alan: Can I ask you another question?
  2. Lisa: Sure.
  3. Alan: You probably get this a lot. This isn't real Caesars Palace. is it?
  4. Lisa: What do you mean?
  5. Alan: Did ummm, did Caesar live here?
  6. Lisa: Ummm, no.
  7. Alan: I didn't think so.
  – Submitted by Joe N (26 days ago)
• 1. Mr. Chow: Now, give me money. Or I shoot him, and I shoot all you motha fuckas and then we take it. Your choice bitches.
  – Submitted by Joe N (26 days ago)
• 1. Mr. Chow: So long gay-boys!
  – Submitted by Scott M (5 months ago)
• 1. Alan: It's not a purse. It's a sachel. Besides, Indiana Jones has one.
  – Submitted by Aaron S (6 months ago)
• 1. Stu: Why can't we remember ANYTHING that happened last night?
  2. Alan: That's one of the side-effects of Roofies. Memory loss.
  3. Stu: You are literally too stupid to insult.
  4. Alan: Thank you.
  – Submitted by Diego T (9 months ago)
• 1. Alan: Are my glasses okay?
  2. Stu: Your sunglasses are okay, dick.
  – Submitted by Nicolas T (9 months ago)